Food and farming around the world, sentence 8

Today machines, fertilisers and better seeds let a few farmers feed many, but farming still drinks about 70 percent of the fresh water people take.

Who acts: Today machines, few farmers, farming, people · What happens: let, feed, drink, take · To what, where: many, 70 percent, fresh water

This is a sentence of the lesson «Food and farming around the world» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Today machines, few farmers, farming, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 machines	compound
2	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 let	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fertilisers	punct
4	fertilisers	fertiliser	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 machines	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 seeds	cc
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 seeds	amod
7	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 machines	conj
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 farmers	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 farmers	amod
11	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 feed	nsubj
12	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 feed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drinks	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 drinks	cc
16	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drinks	nsubj
17	still	still	ADV	_	18 drinks	advmod
18	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 let	conj
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 70	advmod
20	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 percent	nummod
21	percent	percent	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drinks	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 water	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 water	det
24	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 water	amod
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 percent	nmod
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 take	nsubj
27	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 water	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	let	present	Today machines and fertilisers and better seeds			tree rules
2	feed	infinitive	a few farmers	many		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Recipient
3	drink	present	farming	70 percent of the fresh water	still	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent percent=Patient
4	take	present	people	the fresh water not said here		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:geography:026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.lesson:8.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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